Category: First Nations
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Flood
Today dawned soft and warm, sunlight shafting through the trees and across the field. The landscape is a spectrum of intense greens, punctuated by brilliant blooms. Wildlife abounds. We’ve been following the news from Vermont closely, as we have friends and family living there still. We’ve had abundant rain but western Massachusetts, parts of new…
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The Extractive Ideology of Settler-Colonialism
A chilly, damp morning. Crocuses are up in a few yards and a snowstorm may arrive Monday night. I’m in and out of the art studio and my sound and photo space, and continue to spend too much time sitting before a computer. This is at least partially due to my enrolling in the second…
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The Settler Colonialism of Climate Change
Today is a beautiful late March day in mid-February, with wide blue skies and temperatures, as they have much of the winter, running over 12 degrees above normal. We celebrated Valentine’s Day by going to a favorite informal restaurant by the water for lunch. We had dinner the other day with a much loved and…
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Solstice Kitchen
On this solstice morning we awoke to a deer in the field and a Mordorish sky which slowly gave way to bright sunshine. How appropriate! We are still waiting for winter, or what passes for winter here on the south coast of Massachusetts. Folks here insist this is winter but that assertion is a stretch…
